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"The Heir requested an audience with the Anjin."
SHŌGUN - Chapter Nine: Crimson Sky
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Shōgun (2024) | Chapter 7: A Stick of Time
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What's so fascinating about Toranaga's plan to employ Mariko as Crimson Sky is that it was all there right from the beginning.
When Toranaga first arrives in Osaka the regents demand that he release Ochiba, the mother of the Heir, from where she is being held in Edo. Nothing scares Toranaga quite like Ochiba (no doubt why he held her in the first place), and he knows that once she is able to return to Osaka, she's going to do everything she can to destroy him.
Enter Mariko.
Mariko is perfectly placed: she shares a history with Ochiba, a girlhood bond that grew distant due to time and circumstance, but she is completely loyal to Toranaga, willing, in fact, to die for him and his cause. If the time comes for him to have to negotiate with Ochiba — or he has some need to soften her desire for vengeance — Mariko will serve as the crucial middle ground.
Once he realizes Ochiba will soon be free to move against him, Toranaga summons Mariko, requesting that she serve as a translator to the foreign barbarian. But even more important than her role as a translator, Toranaga wants to bring her closer and cement her place in his inner circle of followers. (As a woman, she is easily overlooked, not being a general or a vassal with an army of retainers, but her importance might be even more vital.) He reminds her of his great admiration for her father and acknowledges that for many years she has been robbed of her purpose. What if he could give it back to her? Like Mariko, we assume that her purpose is to serve as a translator, but Toranaga knows it is far larger: to play her part against the regents and serve as a bridge to Ochiba, when the time comes.
Toranaga is a falconer. He knows the value of caring for a bird, feeding it by hand, having it learn to trust you until it sees you as its only master. And as Toranaga describes his falcon, Lady of Steel, he could also be describing his plan for Mariko: “Conceals herself against the sun. Conserving energy, waiting for her moment.”
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finished shōgun last night and can I say I think this is how we should start doing white saviour narratives from now on. Like yeah you could say John Blackthorne is a white saviour but GOD is he bad at it. spends almost the entire series more like a white damsel in distress. amazing 10/10 no notes
#“all I want is my men. and my ship. and this woman who's already married.”#shōgun#shogun fx#shogun#john blackthorne#cosmo jarvis#hiroyuki sanada
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Moeka Hoshi (Fuji) last day on set with the crew.
"Hugging with Fred while crying. Bowing to Justin while crying.
Talking with Cosmo while crying. I'm a crybaby as you know😂."
She's so pure! 😭Best Nun Girl ! 🥰
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Beautiful Shogun finale that encapsulated everything that’s good about this series. My only complaint is that we didn’t get to see Toranaga’s plan fully realised and him becoming shogun. But, narratively I guess that’s consistent with what the story has been about anyway. The 3D chess political manoeuvring and Anjin’s journey.
So many moments got me emotional in this finale from Fuji and Anjin’s “no translator” conversation after Mariko’s death to them letting go of their loved ones in the lake together. Very powerful scenes. Direction was superb as per usual. For a finale with no action, there was no shortage of tense and impactful moments. Honestly felt way shorter than an hour and we do get that final scene of Toranaga I wanted more.
Cosmo(Anjin actor) was brilliant in this. Hope he gets more roles going forward cause this dude can act his ass off. Been a Sawai Anna fan since Monarch TV show and I think the whole world can see why now. Her Mariko character and Anjin’s relationship and character arcs were so satisfying. While they might not have got the ending we wanted, that’s the way life goes sometimes. We live and we die, we control nothing else.
Hollywood can learn a lot from a series like this. Telling a satisfying story in only 10 episodes, no need for sequels or add ons. Without a doubt one of the best tv shows ever made.
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Shōgun writers on Blackthorne's journey, A Dream of a Dream's theme of letting go
Emily Yoshida (writer): "Blackthorne's fate is so interesting, and totally unexpected. People are going to see in it what they wanna see, because there's a lot of ways you can read it. It could be somehow worse than death, like a purgatory of some sort. And then there's a way in which you can read it as a life of devotion to something beyond him, which has been something that has been a struggle for him. How do you view Blackthorne's fate?"
Justin Marks (co-creator): "I think Blackthorne's journey in this episode to the place where it lands, in such a beautiful and powerful scene between Blackthorne and Toranaga - on that hill where he offers up his own life. That's the journey that I hope all of us are on, if we're trying to understand how we interact with cultures we don't know. We want to forge relationships with people that go on, but we don't necessarily speak the same cultural or spiritual - or literal - language.
Which is to say, Blackthorne has been a prisoner of his own ambition. Which one might call the disease of colonialism - or capitalism, too. This idea of a man who is so bound by his ambition and where he belongs in this world, and what is owed to him, that he is the worst prisoner of all. So is Yabushige. They're both like this. And Yabushige never comes to that awakening, and finds himself dying here.
But for Blackthorne, it revolves crucially on this idea of what we call the 'false dream'. We wanted to open this episode on what feels like the beginning of a flashback structure, where we jump forward into the future, and we meet Blackthorne as an old man, and we tell the story of an old man looking back. And looking back with regret on the life that he led.
Only to realise that that was not the dream of an old man looking back - it was the dream of a young man looking forward to one possible version of his life. A version of his life that he has to draw to an end by killing that path. What Blackthorne is trying to kill there isn't himself, it's the version of himself that he's always been.
When Toranaga knocks that knife out of his hand and looks down at him, he's looking at a man reborn now, to a completely different life.
What is powerful is the idea of a man finally, spiritually, letting go. And this is something that we talked about from the very beginning, Cosmo and I. This whole story for Blackthorne is really just a story of a man learning to let go."
Shōgun official podcast Episode 10: A Dream of a Dream
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So many shogun fans absolutely begging for more episodes as if new eps wouldn’t corrupt the entire pathos of the series
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I'm watching Shogun (FX) and the main white guy is the most curious mix of Tom Hardy (voice, how he carries himself, face-ish), Josh Hutcherson (face), and Seth Rogen (height, lower face with the beard).
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Shōgun has one of the best, most original expressions of love in anything I have ever seen.
As a fan of the show, it is devastating to think this is a one and done, but also, considering what happens, do you really need more? Creators captured perfectly the whole keep them craving more. Even what the finale does, subverting the spectacle, what other show would dare do that? But this has always been a show about words and manners, the slightest transgression is magnified greater than the siege on Helm’s Deep.
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Here’s a drawing I did of Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii Toranaga from Shogun.
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# character development
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I've been ordered by my lord to escort his ladies to Edo.
I'm sorry, but without a permit, no lord or his retinue may leave Osaka Castle.
It is Lord Ishido's order.
You leave me no choice.
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Shōgun | 1.02 - "Servants of Two Masters"
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please watch shogun
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Chano : Oh, yes, I saw you at your wedding, but you didn't see me. You're very little different from those days, still one of Buddha's chosen.
Mariko : Ah, I wish that were true, Oku-san. I'm not, as much as I would like to be.
Toranaga : She's Christian.
Chano : Ah, what does that matter, Christian or Buddha, Great Lord? Not a lot sometimes, though some god's necessary to a woman. We women need a god, Great Lord, to help us deal with men, neh?
Toranaga : And we men need godlike patience, to deal with women, neh?
They laughed, and it warmed the room, and for an instant, lessened some of Mariko's foreboding.
James Clavell's Shogun (1975), Chapter 49, Page 821
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